10 Best NJPW Matches Of 2020 (So Far)

10. Jon Moxley Vs. Minoru Suzuki - New Beginning In Osaka

Moxley and Suzuki are two madmen who wanted to beat each other up so badly that neither could stand up the next day, and they more than delivered on that desire. It was a dream match that had been clamoured for ever since Moxley joined NJPW. His harder, intense style of wrestling seemed made for exchanges with Minoru Suzuki. Both men’s raw intensity clashed perfectly as they chopped, fore-armed and battered the daylights out of each other in pursuit to cementing Moxley as the newest rabid dog in town.

While Jon Moxley is well established and praised as a worker, thanks to his current run as AEW champion and his many years as Dean Ambrose in WWE, a lot of Western audiences still underestimate the complexities of Minoru Suzuki. It's easy to see him as just a vicious arbiter of punishment, but the man's one of the most versatile and gifted wrestling minds in the business today. He's a master technician and grappler on top of his sadistic striking game, and he used all his abilities and knowledge to further get Mox over as the IWGP US champion.

Moxley's incendiary passion and natural chemistry with Suzuki made the most of every second of this encounter, easily standing out as one of the best matches of his post WWE career and making NJPW fans all over the world desperate for a follow up.